HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Sharecropping, Blue-Collar Worker, Stock Market
18 Sep 2013
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In the polacheck book, hilda was originally uprooted, her family struggled to get by with money, especially after her father died and they had to make do. They ate very little and both her and her sister were working to help their mother and family. It was due to the ideological changes in america. Either they weren"t successful or the majority of people wanted change but were too scared to leave the way things currently were: the progressive movement. It was strongest everywhere, except new england where it was weakest. He was very shy, 300 pound weakling (golf v. boxing- his sport was golf, not boxing, which is indicative from upper class-men of the mind: wilson"s foreign policy. He said us should have self- respect, equality, and friendship for latin america. But in practice it doesn"t look much different than the treaty we imposed on cuba: american"s initial response to what was happening in eurpoe: wilson called on.
